Games Like Automation

Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!

Why similar: Education 39.6%, Automation 25.7%, Puzzle 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Physics 5.5%

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Education 31.4%, Physics 12%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 6.2%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Automation 47.3%, Education 31.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, 2D 1.7%

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

Why similar: Education 39%, Automation 37.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 9%, Colorful 2.5%

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Why similar: Automation 37%, Education 29.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.3%

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Why similar: Education 36.7%, Automation 36.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5.3%

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

Why similar: Education 40.4%, Automation 39.5%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 7%, 2D 1.5%

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Automation 39.4%, Education 38%, Puzzle 10.3%, Simulation 7.9%, 2D 3.4%

Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.

Why similar: Automation 36.5%, Education 29.9%, Physics 11.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Strategy 6.6%

Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.

Why similar: Education 37.8%, Automation 33%, Physics 15%, Simulation 9.1%, 3D 3%

Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.

Why similar: Automation 58.5%, Strategy 21.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, Indie 2.6%, 2D 2%

The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!

Why similar: Automation 38.1%, Education 25.3%, Puzzle 13%, Simulation 11.5%, Physics 10.6%

Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!

Why similar: Education 47.4%, Automation 28.3%, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 1%

Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.

Why similar: Automation 51%, Strategy 15.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Colorful 3.3%

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

Why similar: Education 46.1%, Simulation 21.4%, Puzzle 18.3%, Colorful 5.6%, Indie 4.6%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Automation 52.9%, Education 23.5%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Indie 1.5%

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.

Why similar: Automation 38.5%, Education 29.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 9.1%

Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!

Why similar: Education 48.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Puzzle 15.1%, Physics 12.4%, 3D 3.3%

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.

Why similar: Education 36.9%, Automation 33.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Colorful 3.6%

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Education 34.8%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 5.5%, Strategy 4.8%

Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.

Why similar: Automation 49.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Puzzle 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%

A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!

Why similar: Automation 57.6%, Physics 20.3%, Puzzle 12.6%, Simulation 5%, 2D 2.9%

Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.

Why similar: Automation 48%, Education 31.3%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 8.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.

Why similar: Education 29.4%, Physics 27.6%, Puzzle 18.8%, Simulation 13.7%, 2D 5.8%

SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

Why similar: Automation 56.2%, Puzzle 17.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 5.8%, 3D 4.8%

You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.

Why similar: Education 65.9%, Puzzle 16.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.

Why similar: Education 43.2%, Simulation 30.6%, Puzzle 21.4%, Indie 4.9%

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Why similar: Education 25%, Physics 21.5%, Automation 14.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12%

Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Why similar: Automation 47%, Education 31.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%, 2D 2.8%

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Automation 49.8%, Simulation 22.9%, Puzzle 22.8%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?

Why similar: Automation 61.3%, Puzzle 17.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Colorful 5.2%, Indie 2.4%

The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

Why similar: Education 52.3%, Physics 25.3%, Simulation 16.4%, 2D 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.

Why similar: Education 46.1%, Automation 37.6%, Puzzle 12.3%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.

Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Education 28.7%, Physics 17.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 8.5%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Automation 64.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 14.1%, 3D 4%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.

Why similar: Education 55.5%, Puzzle 22.7%, Simulation 11.3%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 2.6%

Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!

Why similar: Automation 41.5%, Education 32.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Puzzle 7.3%

MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.

Why similar: Education 52.9%, Simulation 25.1%, Puzzle 16.7%, Indie 5.3%

Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

Why similar: Education 66.9%, Simulation 26.2%, 3D 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!

Why similar: Puzzle 33.8%, Education 25%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 10.7%, 2D 8.3%

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Automation 45.9%, Education 23.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 12.2%, 2D 3.3%

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Automation 52.6%, Simulation 24.3%, Puzzle 14.1%, Indie 4.8%, Strategy 3.8%

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Why similar: Automation 43.8%, Education 25.6%, Puzzle 13.8%, Strategy 11.6%, 2D 4%

uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.

Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 3.9%

A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.

Why similar: Automation 56%, Strategy 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Simulation 12%, 2D 3.6%

A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.

Why similar: Automation 53.4%, Puzzle 15.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.7%, 3D 4.9%

Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Why similar: Education 64.5%, Puzzle 15.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.

Why similar: Education 39.2%, Puzzle 28.5%, Simulation 25.1%, Indie 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?

Why similar: Automation 63.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, Strategy 14.2%, 3D 3.7%, Colorful 1.7%

Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!

Why similar: Education 38.5%, Puzzle 22.7%, Automation 20.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Indie 3.5%

Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.

Why similar: Automation 55.7%, Puzzle 16.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 9.5%, 2D 4.1%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 70.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Colorful 2%, 3D 1.8%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Automation 51.3%, Education 24.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, 3D 3.7%

A terminal-based game for learning and practicing how to program in Python.

Why similar: Education 91.4%, 2D 4.4%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Education 44.1%, Automation 35.3%, Puzzle 16.8%, 2D 1.6%, Indie 1.6%

《一个人工智能的诞生》（The Birth of an Artificial Intelligence）是一个有关机器学习的交互视频项目，它将从最简单的原理入手，通过清晰直观的可视化，让你彻底理解它的工作原理。你可以亲自动手操作，调整参数，改变视角，实时演示，甚至可以搭建一个人工智能。

Why similar: Education 36.9%, Automation 34.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Colorful 2.6%

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.5%, Simulation 46.5%

Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.

Why similar: Automation 43.6%, Education 38.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 1%